THE PAINED BRAIN
Technical supplements
One per chapter. The studies, the numbers, and what each one does not show — written to be handed to your physician.
Every chapter, and the evidence under it
The book makes the argument. These show the receipts, claim by claim: the study, its design, who was in it, the number and exactly where it sits in the paper, and what it does not show. Across the twenty-two, 2,291 references.
Each one arrives by email. Open the chapter you want and enter your name and email; the rest follow one a week, in order.
Chapter 1 — The Cost of Pain: Mortality and Metabolic Collapse
27 pages · 92 references
Chapter 2 — The Signal versus The Diagnosis
23 pages · 73 references
Chapter 3 — The Illusion of the Scan
35 pages · 94 references
Chapter 4 — Chronic Hyperinsulinemia
36 pages · 85 references
Chapter 5 — The Dietary Chemical Factory
27 pages · 75 references
Chapter 6 — Advanced Glycation End Products
30 pages · 77 references
Chapter 7 — The Broken Master Clock
33 pages · 97 references
Chapter 8 — The Stress Rewire
30 pages · 85 references
Chapter 9 — Central Sensitization
34 pages · 90 references
Chapter 10 — The Emergency Room Mismatch
26 pages · 73 references
Chapter 11 — The Cluster Headache Emergency
32 pages · 77 references
Chapter 12 — Misaligned Incentives in Healthcare
26 pages · 76 references
Chapter 13 — Procedural Precision
31 pages · 79 references
Chapter 14 — Percutaneous Hydro Resection
43 pages · 145 references
Chapter 15 — Regenerative Medicine over Band Aids
49 pages · 135 references
Chapter 16 — Pain in the Elderly
51 pages · 162 references
Chapter 17 — The Regulatory Environment
63 pages · 153 references
Chapter 18 — Cost Effectiveness in Pain Care
51 pages · 144 references
Chapter 19 — Reframing the Search for the Best Doctor
40 pages · 107 references
Chapter 20 — Nociceptive versus Neuropathic Pain
41 pages · 107 references
Chapter 21 — The Biopsychosocial Reality
47 pages · 127 references
Chapter 22 — The Individual as the Foundation
48 pages · 138 references
Educational material. Not medical advice.